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My Top 10 Books on Witchcraft, Druidry and More!

I thought I would share with you some top ten lists of my favourite books on Witchcraft, Druidry, history and reference material, herbcraft and spellcraft. I hope you like them, and that you try some of these works, if you haven’t already! I haven’t included my own books such as The Path of the Hedge Witch or The Book of Hedge Druidry and others as I wanted to reccomend other authors, but of course I highly recommend my own works right alongside these as well 🙂 Please find my Top 10 Lists below 🙂

Top 10 Beginner Books on Wicca and Witchcraft

  1. Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham
  2. Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham
  3. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft by Denise Zimmerman and Katherine A. Gleason
  4. A Witch Alone by Marian Green
  5. The Green Hedge Witch by Rae Beth
  6. The Earth Path by Starhawk
  7. Solitary Wicca for Life by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
  8. Natural Witchery by Ellen Dugan
  9. How to Become a Witch by Amber K, Azrael Arynn K
  10. Natural Witchcraft by Marian Green

Top 10 Advanced Books on Wicca and Witchcraft

  1. The Witch’s Path by Thorn Mooney
  2. The Circle Within by Dianne Sylvan
  3. Philosophy of Wicca by Amber Fisher
  4. The Inner Mysteries by Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone
  5. Of Chalk and Flint by Val Thomas
  6. Transformative Witchcraft by Jason Mankey
  7. The Twelve Wild Swans by Starhawk and Hilary Valentine
  8. The Wiccan Warrior by Kerr Cuhulain
  9. The Study of Witchraft by Deborah Lipp
  10. Walking the Tides by Nigel Pearson

Top 10 Books on Druidry

  1. Spritis of the Sacred Grove by Emma Restall Orr
  2. Living Druidry by Emma Restall Orr
  3. Ritual by Emma Restall Orr
  4. The Salmon in the Spring by Jason Kirkey
  5. Way of the Druid by Graeme Tallboys
  6. Natural Druidry by Kristoffer Hughes
  7. Celtic Devotional by John and Caitlinn Matthews
  8. Wild Magic by Danu Forest
  9. The Druid Way by Phillip Carr-Gomm
  10. Living With Honour by Emma Restall Orr

Top 10 Books on History and also Reference Material

  1. The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft by Judika Illes
  2. An ABC of Witchcraft by Doreen Valiente
  3. Stations of the Sun by Ronald Hutton
  4. The Witch by Ronald Hutton
  5. The Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton
  6. The Book of Witchery by Ellen Dugan
  7. Buckland’s Complete Book of Witchcraft by Raymond Buckland
  8. The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
  9. Cunningham’s Encyclopedias (all of them: Magical Herbs, Wicca in the Kitchen, Crystal Gem, Incense Oils, etc.)
  10. The Devil’s Plantation by Nigel Pearson

Top 10 Herbcraft Books

  1. Hedgerow Medicine by Julie Bruton Seal et al
  2. Herbs for Healthy Living by Dr. Ute Künkele et als
  3. Brighid’s Healing by Gina McGarry
  4. Wild Witchcraft by Marian Green
  5. Garden Witchery by Ellen Dugan
  6. The Garden Witch’s Herbal by Ellen Dugan
  7. Magical Herbalism by Scott Cunningham
  8. The Hearth Witch’s Compendium by Anna Franklin
  9. A Druid’s Herbal by Ellen Evert Hopman
  10. The Herbalist’s Bible by Julie Bruton Seal et al

Top 10 Spellcraft Books

  1. Earth Power and also the follow-up book, Earth, Air, Fire and Water by Scott Cunningham
  2. Protection Magic by Ellen Dugan
  3. Prosperity Magic by Ellen Dugan
  4. The Natural Magician by Vivianne Crowley
  5. Spellcraft for Hedge Witches by Rae Beth
  6. Magickal Self-Defense by Kerr Cuhulain
  7. Spellcrafts by Scott Cunningham
  8. Spells and How They Work by Janet and Stewart Farrar
  9. The Book of Celtic Magic by Kristoffer Hughes
  10. Protection Spells by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

I hope that these lists helps you, wherever you are on your path! Blessings.

4 thoughts on “My Top 10 Books on Witchcraft, Druidry and More!”

  1. I notice a lot of your suggestions are Wiccan based books. Do you consider yourself Wiccan? I started out as Wiccan many years ago, but learned it wasn’t the path for me. But I’m noticing a lot of us in the witchcraft community either started or have a base in wicca and are still using those formalized roots to lead what we do today in our practices. Do you find the same is true for you?

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    • Yes, I first started out with Wicca back in 1991 or 1992. It was the predominant Pagan path at that time, and it gave me a chance to express what I felt for the gods and the land. I don’t consider myself Wiccan now, I am a Druid and a Hedge Witch. I have studied and practiced Druidry for 25 years, and have been a Witch all my life, finding my niche in Hedge Witchcraft when I began to study Traditional Witchcraft here in the British Isles. You will probably find that most people who are aged 40 and up started their paths with Wicca, as there wasn’t much out there for the seeker to find in the bookshops other than those books at that time. Now, the seeker is lucky to have much wider choice. There are more books on traditional Craft now, which is great, and I’ve recommended some of them in my list. Here’s hoping for more! 🙂

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      • I’ve been talking about this exact thing with a lot of other witches lately. I’m only 31, but I started exploring witchcraft around 9 or so on a website called teenwitch.com. They are a wiccan site. They also had a ton of suggested reading, a lot of which I read. You’re right. There really just wasn’t anything on the market back then (late 90s, early 2000s) other than wiccan titles. It’s a very interesting phenomenon to see how a wiccan base has influenced people’s practices when they are 10/20/30 years out of the religion.

      • Wicca is one of many bases, in many of our Pagan paths. 🙂 There are underlying elements of lots of different religions and spiritualities that framed our worldviews, depending on where we lived and grew up, including our social circumstances and so on. And still to this day, it’s the same. 🙂 My initial base stemmed from reading Greek myths as a child, and being exposed to First Nations stories and culture that explained a lot of natural phenomena around me. It made sense to me, and offered ways of being in relationship with the land, listening to its stories. My first prayers, offering and suchlike were to indigenous beings and local wildlife. I was only eight or nine years old, and I had no idea what I was doing, but I just knew that it made more sense to me than the bible classes I was attending for my Protestant confirmation. There is also that Christian, patriarchal undertone that many of us had ingrained into our baseline, to whatever extent. When it’s in your culture, it’s hard to escape it. 🙂

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